The blasts were a result of poorly stored explosives at a military base in the city, President Teodoro Obiang said in a statement on Sunday night
Four former heads of state speak about what being president is actually like
At least in the short term, it looks unlikely that Jammeh will face either his victims or consequences for human rights abuses
Omar al-Bashir may be gone, but the revolution has only just begun.
The government says that foreign mercenaries mounted an attempted putsch on December 24 but it was thwarted.
The standards of another presidential debauchery may just have been topped
Together, his children Isabel (44) and José Filomeno (39) in effect control Angola’s purse strings
Jacob Zuma’s cosy relationship with Obiang can be leveraged to bring about democratic change.
Teodorin Obiang ordered design of yacht worth three times Equatorial Guinea’s health and education bill, says watchdog.
The West African state of Equatorial Guinea voted on Sunday in elections expected to be won yet again by the veteran hardline president amid opposition charges of voting irregularities and harassment. The oil-rich state went to the polls in local and general elections whose results were for observers a foregone conclusion
A Briton accused of masterminding a failed coup in Equatorial Guinea is being held illegally and has been denied access to his lawyer since he was charged in February, a defence attorney said on Saturday. British mercenary Simon Mann was secretly deported to the West African state of Equatorial Guinea on January 31 from Zimbabwe.
A British mercenary awaiting trial in Equatorial Guinea for leading a failed 2004 coup has said the son of former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher was involved in the plot, the public prosecutor said on Sunday. Jose Olo said former British special forces officer Simon Mann had testified that Mark Thatcher knew all about the scheme to overthrow President Teodoro Obiang Nguema.
Former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher’s son shrugged off Equatorial Guinea’s attempts to have him arrested for his alleged role in a plot to overthrow the country, according to a newspaper report on Saturday. The West African country has issued a warrant for Mark Thatcher’s arrest for his role in helping to finance and organise a coup plot.
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/ 7 February 2008
Former British special forces officer Simon Mann will go on trial in Equatorial Guinea, charged with plotting to overthrow President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, the government said on Thursday. ”He will receive a fair trial with all procedural and institutional guarantees,” a government statement said.
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/ 31 January 2008
Zimbabwe’s High Court ruled on Wednesday that a former British special forces officer could be extradited to Equatorial Guinea to face coup-plot charges, rejecting arguments that he might be tortured. Simon Mann was jailed in 2004 and was briefly released after serving his sentence in May last year.
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/ 1 September 2007
Equatorial Guinea leader Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo on Friday hailed President Robert Mugabe’s land seizure drive, saying Zimbabwe’s agriculture sector was one of Africa’s most developed. Obiang, who arrived in Zimbabwe on Wednesday on a state visit, said his tiny but oil-rich country stood to benefit from Harare’s agriculture experience.
President Robert Mugabe, accusing the West of trying to push Zimbabwe into collapse, declared it would survive thanks to its people’s resilience and support from Africa, state radio reported on Wednesday. Mugabe said Britain, the former colonial ruler, and his opponents sought his ouster.